RESEARCH INTEREST

I study syntactic developmental patterns in L1 and L2 acquisition in children and adults. During my PhD, I researched structural priming effects in monolingual and bilingual German-speaking children across development. As a postdoc in the SILPAC research unit (https://silpac.uni-mannheim.de/), I focus on within- and cross-language structural priming in monolingual and bilingual English- and German-speaking children. My project aims to prime frequency-dependent and atypical grammatical constructions to understand how these constructions adapt immediately and over time, potentially driving language change.

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

2012-current
Ph.D. in Language Development, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

2009
Master in English Language and Literature, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

2008
Bachelor in English Language and Literature, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

2007
Master in German Language and Literature, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

2006
Bachelor in German Language and Literature, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2022-current
Researcher / Postdoc in the research unit (Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC: silpac.uni-mannheim.de/), University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group, Department of Social Sciences, Center for Cognitive Science

2012
Researcher / Doctoral Student, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group, Department of Social Sciences, Center for Cognitive Science

2010-2012  
Teacher of German, Humboldt Institute, Konstanz, Germany

2008-2009
Teacher of German and English, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Faculty of Theory and Practice in Translation, Department of Foreign Languages

PUBLICATIONS

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C., Jacob, G., & Allen, S. E. M. (in press). The development of abstract structural representations in bilingual children – evidence from structural priming. Child Language.

Karkaletsou, F., Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. E. M. (2024). Exploring bilingual adaptation to structural innovations: Evidence from Canadian French. Languages, 9(12), 375. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9120375

Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Family, N., Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. E.M. (2024). Evidence for a constituent order boost in structural priming. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 3(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.5070/G60111517

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C., Jacob, G., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). Abstract priming and the lexical boost effect across development in a structurally biased language. Languages, 8, 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040264  www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/264

Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). The dative alternation in German: Structural preferences and verb bias effects. In E. Zehenter, M. Röthlisberger, & T. Colleman (Eds.), Ditransitives in Germanic languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects (pp. 264-298). John Benjamins.[pdf]

Kushneryk W. & Kholodova A. (2011) "Виявлення природнодинамічного підходу до процесу засвоєння мови різновікових категорій білінгвів", [Detection of the naturally dynamic approach in the acquisition process at various age onsets in bilinguals.] Journal of Bukowina, 3, pp. 236 - 240.[pdf]

Kholodova A. (2009). "Феномен інтерференції у мовленні дітей білінгвів ", "The Phenomenon of Interference in Children's Speech", Theoretical and  Applied Linguistics on German Philology, National University of J.Fedkovych,  Chernivtsi,  pp. 264-269. [pdf]

Kholodova A., Kuschneryk W. (2008) "До проблеми лінгво-культурної свідомості білінгва", "The Problem of Linguistic and Cultural Consciousness of a Bilingual" Theoretical and Applied Linguistics on German Philology, National University of J.Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, pp. 213 - 219. [pdf]

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

2024

Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (September 2024). Investigation of core priming effects in monolingual and bilingual children: A developmental approach. Poster presented at the 30th Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), Edinburgh, Scotland.

Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (July 2024). Within and across-language priming trajectories across development in a structurally biased language. Talk presented at the XVI th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Prag, Czech Republic.

Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (May 2024). Within and across-language priming and the lexical boost across development in a structurally biased language. Poster presented at the 5th Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC), Swansea University, UK.

2023

Karkaletsou, F., Kholodova, A. & Allen, S.E.M. (August 2023). Exploring bilingual adaptation to syntactic innovations: Evidence from Canadian French, Poster at SSoL 23 (Summer School of Linguistics), České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (June 2023). Priming effects based on prediction error across development. Poster presented at LingColone2023: Prediction in Language, Colone, Germany.
Karkaletsou, F., Kholodova, A., & Allen S. E. M. (May 2023). Exploring cross-linguistic influence and adaptation to innovations: A rating study with bilinguals in Canada. Poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF), Ghent, Belgium.

2022

Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (November 2022). Processing of ungrammatical structures in English-French bilinguals. Poster at Workshop on L2 sentence and discourse processing, Colone, Germany. 
Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland., C. & Allen, S. E. M. (2022). Cumulative priming effects across development in monolingual and bilingual children. Talk presented at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). Tromso, Norway, August 2022.
Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland., C. & Allen, S. E. M. (2022). Cumulative priming effects across development in monolingual and bilingual children. Talk presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September, 2022.

TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY KAISERSLAUTERN-LANDAU

•    Methods course on ‘structural priming’ for lab rotations student in their master’s program in cognitive science
•    "Heterogene Lerngruppen: Sprache in der Schule" (Heterogeneous learning groups: Language at school) for teacher-training students in various content area subjects
•    English, levels A2 - B1
•    German, levels A1-C1